[PATCH] powerpc/boot: Mark exit() and ps3_exit() as __noreturn
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-08-07 15:25:04
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linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), ps3 platform support, the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Geoff Levand, Linus Torvalds
Since neither exit() nor ps3_exit() return, annotate both functions with the __noreturn attribute to improve compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> --- arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h b/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
index a40c2162a4e9..df52b14816e2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static inline void free(void *ptr) platform_ops.free(ptr); } -static inline void exit(void) +static inline void __noreturn exit(void) { if (platform_ops.exit) platform_ops.exit();
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c
index 89ff46b8b225..22fa35960926 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static void ps3_console_write(const char *buf, int len) { } -static void ps3_exit(void) +static void __noreturn ps3_exit(void) { printf("ps3_exit\n");